Administrators and members of the Cherokee County Conservation District and Natural Resources Conservation Service met on Thursday to discuss a cost-share program to identify areas of improving water quality and the reduction of soil erosion. ... read more >>

Pinellas County Commissioner Neil Brickfield makes several inaccurate statements as he tries to justify why he voted to stop adding fluoride to the county's drinking water. Brickfield misrepresents established science, and he misleads voters in the same fashion he was misled before voting against the public health. ... read more >>

Forests are vital for life, home to millions of species, they protect soil from erosion, produce oxygen, store carbon dioxide, and help control climate. Forests are also vital for us to live as they provide us with food, shelter and medicines as well as many other useful things. They also purify the air we breathe and water that we need to survive. Deforestation by humans is causing all of these ... read more >>

How will climate change effect us, there are many factors that will be affected by climate change including rising sea levels, drought and loss of agricultural land. ... read more >>

Forest carbon projects are quite popular measures when it comes to compensating greenhouse gas emissions. An increasing number of companies invest in forests as carbon sinks. Still the uncertainty regarding the eligibility criteria of such projects remains large. Besides “safe” carbon storage the social and ecological integrity of forest carbon projects plays a crucial role. The following guideli ... read more >>

Lake Titicaca is the largest freshwater lake in South America and the highest, commercially navigable body of water in the world. In the barren plateau of the Andes, the Altiplano in Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca was and continues to be of existential importance to the surrounding population due to its role as a source of drinking water and, thanks to its abundance of fish, of food. The Totora ... read more >>

By 2025, the U.S. will need 165% more water than what it used in 2000, according to an IBM report. There are many ways to address the increasing global water crisis, according to this piece, one of which could be a water trading system. Other options include the use of cloud computing for the management of water systems, the use of green infrastructure and other conservation measures. "Water is p ... read more >>

Growing urban populations and economic growth are putting more pressure on the watersheds and infrastructure supplying water to cities. This is where IUCN and IWA have joined forces in pulling together their knowledge, networks and resources to strengthen nature-based solutions for water security in urban areas.
A workshop to develop the new 'Basins of the Future' initiative took place during th ... read more >>

Green roofs offer many public, private, and design-based benefits. Read more about these benefits on this page. ... read more >>

Launching rockets to create a sulphur screen high in the stratosphere is one way to counter global warming explored in a new BBC documentary, Five Ways To Save The World. ... read more >>